Keep Keyboard Open On Ionic When Button Click ( Chat App )

I have an Ionic v1 chat application, I made everything, but I encountred the famous problem when clicking on a send button (send chat) the keyboard loses focus from the input and

Solution 1:

ALright found a fix! for all of you out there, who are using ionic for a chat like app, and want the keyboard to stay focused after clicking on a button,

Just, replace the button by a label with for="inputID" like so:

<div class="sender">
<inputid="inputID"type="text"ng-model="..."class="..."><divclass="button-send"><labelfor="inputID"class="send-chat"><iclass="ion ion-send"></i></label></div></div>

Solution 2:

just use (mousedown)="sentMessage(); $event.preventDefault()"

<ion-button (mousedown)="sentMessage(); $event.preventDefault()"><ion-iconios="ios-send"md="md-send"></ion-icon></ion-button>

Solution 3:

Try forcing the keyboard to open via it's cordova plugin https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-plugin-keyboard#keyboardshow